Do you play in public?

[I'm A Banana]

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I know I should post this on Gamers Seeking Gamers (eventually), but do you know of any groups doing 4e in NYC? I'm moving there the week of July 7, even if I have to live on the subway. It'd be cool to get started with gaming again.
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Hey, send me an email: superfluousbubbles at yahoo dot com.

I've been trying to get a few extra hands for our group for a while now. I actually came here about three years before the exact date you're coming, no less, and with the same cause in mind.

 

[RSKennan]

There's different kinds of public.

I would play at a FLGS without a second thought.

I would play at my school's Campus Center, though I'd be a bit more reserved. Most of the people that hang out there play Magic and there's a couple D&D games going on once in a while anyways.

I would not play at a library, restaurant, bar, etc, even if noise wasn't an issue. Just too weird having people who have no idea what an RPG is where they could observe what's going on.

When I was younger, I didn't even like playing at my own house while my dad was home. Not like it was a secret or anything, but I find it difficult to cut loose and act like myself in his presence (for example, I rarely swear around my parents, or others, but when it's just friends I cuss like a sailor).

This is pretty much where I am too, except instead of a dad, I had an Aunt and Uncle.

 

[CleverNickName]

It's not that I am opposed to playing a game in public, but it is just too much stuff to carry around anymore. Back in the BECMI days, we could get by with just the books and a folder...so we would usually play at the coffee shop near campus. But when we started playing 3E, we started using a battle mat and minis as well. It started taking up an impolite amount of space in the coffee shop, and became too much of a hassle to carry everything around in general, so we've gamed from my den ever since.